Interim Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Jennifer Sparrow, Interim Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, holds a BA in communications and an MA in English from Michigan State University, and a PhD in English literature from Wayne State University, with a special interest in writers from the Caribbean. Her essays on Caribbean literature have appeared in edited volumes and scholarly journals include Wadabagei and MaComère. With Elizabeth Nuñez, she co-edited Stories from Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers at Home and Abroad (Seal/Avalon Press, 2005).
Before coming to CUNY SPS, Jennifer was a professor and an administrator at Medgar Evers College, CUNY.
Recent News
November 17, 2022
Digication
In a two-part podcast hosted by Digication, CUNY SPS Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Jennifer Sparrow discusses outcome-driven education with an emphasis on the use of teaching and learning technologies to improve the student experience.
November 09, 2022
With this grant, CUNY SPS will expand its successful performance-based admissions program to include CUNY stop-outs under age 25.
October 21, 2022
Interim Dean Silva-Puras and others at CUNY SPS offered their thoughts on how to best serve adult students in a rapidly changing world.
August 01, 2022
Noticia El Correo NY
Jennifer Sparrow, associate dean of academic affairs at CUNY SPS, published the Op Ed "Estudiantes adultos merecen obtener créditos universitarios por lo que ya saben, incluido su idioma nativo" (Adult learners deserve to earn college credit for what they already know, including their native language) in the Spanish-language publication Noticia El Correo NY. In her piece, Sparrow explains how adult students may be able to get college credit for other languages they speak through the School's Credit for Prior Learning program.